Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Stephen James Styrchak

Lubomir I Birov

Hao Liu

Daniel A Molina

Vladimir Yuryevich Morozov

Rachel M Falzone Schaw

Christian Crowser

Michael Shneerson

Eric Hyde Carter

Aaron Joshua Nonis

Julien Jacques Nicolas Ellie

Richard Andrew Meyer

Ronnie Donnell Yates, Jr

Geoffrey Charles Darst

An object model is provided that allows .NET developers to customize the Office Ribbon user interface according to a .NET Ribbon model rather than the Ribbon XML/callback model of Office applications. The .NET Ribbon model implements the IRibbonExtensibility interface and provides properties and events for Ribbon components. At runtime, the .NET Ribbon model generates and provides an Office application or document with the XML needed to render the custom Ribbon user interface. A visual designer tool uses the .NET Ribbon model to provide .NET developers with a component view architecture that allows developers to set component properties and generate events.

.Net ribbon model for a ribbon user interface

Mechanisms are disclosed that allow for the communication between closed computing systems and other computing systems. Gaming consoles, for instance, can use the present mechanisms to communicate with PCs, especially when unsigned content is sent from the PCs to the gaming consoles. The disclosed communication mechanism can have multiple channels to send information (which may include code and/or data associated with the unsigned content) from the PCs to the gaming consoles. Such information may be distributed over several channels on the communication mechanism. For instance, the communication mechanism can first send a subset of a set of information from a computing system to a closed computing system. Then, depending on the closed system resources, the remaining set of information can be sent to the closed system. Various heuristics can be used to make a determination of whether to send the set of information following the sent subset of information, including but not limited to, GPU resources, memory resources, and the like.

Transfer of content to closed systems

.NET ribbon model for a ribbon user interface

Systems and methods for hosting managed code controls within unmanged hosts, such as MICROSOFT Word and Excel. There are two components to the hosting architecture, a wrapper control that implements various interfaces and a container control that hosts the managed code control. A design-time implementation allows for a designer to drag and drop managed code controls onto documents that run in a design component process. A runtime component allows managed code controls to run within hosts under security permissions specified by a policy.

Winforms control hosting in unmanaged applications

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Stephen James Styrchak